The Dallas Stars held a press conference at American Airlines Center on April 13, 2017 re-introducing Ken Hitchcock as the head coach.

After an introduction from Stars general manager Jim Nill and the standard question and answer period, Hitchcock posed for a photo holding a Stars jersey while flanked by Tyler Seguin, Dan Hamhuis, Jamie Benn, and Jason Spezza.

Exactly 365 days later Nill was holding another press conference, this one addressing the future of the Stars after Hitchcock officially retired from coaching on Friday morning.

“In the end we sat down he thought and we both thought this maybe the best direction to go,” Nill said. “And the best part is he went out on his own terms. Ken Hitchcock has had an illustrious career. It's an amazing career, what he's done with teams. He deserves the right to be able to go out on his own terms and he did that.”